Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture

Biblical Critical Theory is a bold vision for Christians who want to engage the world in a way that is biblically faithful and culturally sensitive, showing how the Bible and its unfolding story help us make sense of modern life and culture. It exposes and evaluates the often-hidden assumptions and concepts that shape late-modern society, examining them through the lens of the biblical story and asking urgent questions about how the Bible can provide incisive, fresh, and nuanced ways of intervening in today's debates.

Format: Hardback
Length: 672 pages
Publication date: 05 January 2023
Publisher: Zondervan

A bold vision for Christians who want to engage the world in a way that is biblically faithful and culturally sensitive.

In Biblical Critical Theory, Christopher Watkin shows how the Bible and its unfolding story help us make sense of modern life and culture.

Critical theories exist to critique what we think we know about reality and the social, political, and cultural structures in which we live. In doing so, they make visible the values and beliefs of a culture in order to scrutinize and change them.

Biblical Critical Theory exposes and evaluates the often-hidden assumptions and concepts that shape late-modern society, examining them through the lens of the biblical story running from Genesis to Revelation, and asking urgent questions like:

How does the Bible's storyline help us understand our society, our culture, and ourselves?

How do specific doctrines help us engage thoughtfully in the philosophical, political, and social questions of our day?

How can we analyze and critique culture and its alternative critical theories through Scripture?

Informed by the biblical-theological structure of Saint Augustine's magisterial work The City of God (and with extensive diagrams and practical tools), Biblical Critical Theory shows how the patterns of the Bible's storyline can provide incisive, fresh, and nuanced ways of intervening in today's debates on everything from science, the arts, and politics to dignity, multiculturalism, and equality. You'll learn the moves to make and the tools to use in analyzing and engaging with all sorts of cultural artifacts and events in a way that is both biblically faithful and culturally relevant.

It is not enough for Christians to explain the Bible to the culture or cultures in which they live.

Weight: 1010g
Dimension: 433 x 220 x 43 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780310128724